Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-04 | Page 7 | Caruso Throat Still in Body

CARUSO THROAT STILL IN BODY Tenor's Widow and Secre tary Make Flat Denial of Rome Reports NEW FORK, Mar. 4. tBy the Associated As-sociated Press Mrs. Enrico Caruso, widow of the famous, ooera- 'tenor. Frfday spiritedly denied cable dU-patches dU-patches from Rome to the effect that her huisband's throat hud been removed remov-ed shortly after death and left to the Naples Museum for scientific examination. exami-nation. The announcement that Home papers pa-pers had reproduced plctorlally the tin oat of the tenor sh4 greeted with n .ingle word ''Impossible." .Mrf. Caruso's denial was supported support-ed quite as emphatically by Bruno Zl-rato, Zl-rato, who wus Caruso's secretary. He l.rnnrlnrl (lir. rnhnrt n " tlrnr it irm l " 1 1 I U s J ( III l "Impossible." Mrs. t'aruso declared after she hud been shown the dispatch. dis-patch. There is not u word of truth in in stuterneni. The throat of Mr. Caruso was not lett to the Naples I MllHUIlli nor to a'ny other museum or i pereon. "At no time after Mr. Caruso's (death wus lus body unwatched by j some member of the family, until it vsas se.jed away in the Cancan cha-pel cha-pel at Naples. There Is but one key j to Hit chapel and 1 have It. It has nev-becii nev-becii out of my possession. "I cannot understand the reported , puidu-a' .m of hi-- throat," she continued, contin-ued, tt must be miiic hoax. And as to the description of the vocal Curds thfl epiglottis and other portions of the throat, by doctors quoted In Home papers, that Is Impos.slMe. How could It be otherwise'.' Ple;ise say for me that there is absolutely no truth In this disp iteh." Si RET LR1 R3JPHATR Mr. Zlrato. after expressing his In- i credulity, told of the attempt of a London physician und surgeon, whose name he could not recall, but which he said he believed to be Lloyd, to obtain ob-tain possession of Caruso's throat two days alter tho singer's death. . "This doctor." said Mr. Zirato. ''said that Mr. Caruso had told him i that he would make provision In his ' will tor the disposal of his throat and ; lun,;s to medical science, after his , I death. ".Noiv, everybody knows tht Mr. Ca-I Ca-I ruso's w ill contained no such provis-lion, provis-lion, Mis. Caruso rttused flatly, of course, to permit the removal of the Organs Mr. Caiuso's body vlos not I ' touc.ied. except (or burial prepara- tlons from the time of death until It ! j was placed In the Cancssa chapel."